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Noted educator and award-winning author Bettina Love, Ph. D., shared her story and her message of improving education through abolitionist teaching, Black joy and anti-racism in the the Kent Student Center Ballroom on Thursday. Love, who is the William F. Russell Professor at Teachers College, Columbia University, was the keynote speaker of 91�ֿ�'s 2022 Anti-Racism Conference.  To learn more about Love and this conference, visit:  /antiracismefforts/keynote-speaker ...

Educators’ Conference is Culmination of Ascendium Grant Project 91�ֿ� hosted the Degree Pathway Summit at the 91�ֿ� Hotel and Conference Center in downtown Kent on Friday, Oct. 7, when educators from around the region met to discuss how bi‐lateral degree pathways complemented the Ohio Guaranteed Transfer Pathway system. In Fall 2019, the Ascendium Education Group awarded 91�ֿ� a $1.09 million grant to partner with Columbus State Community College, Eastern Gateway Community College, and Lorain County Community College to develop transfer pathways that stream...

Biodiversity is a common ecological term, but how many of us truly grasp the gravity of its power to sustain life at every level? If you are a student of Josephine Naji, Ph.D., Associate Professor of Biology at 91�ֿ� Geauga, you won’t just learn about the concept through reading assignments, research and lectures. Dr. Naji drives home her lessons on biological diversity with up-close, in-person, hands-on field trips out in nature and among the prehistoric exhibits at the Cleveland Museum of Natural History. It is when students are learning to identify ephemeral spring wildflowers at...

91�ֿ� School of Art senior lecturer, Juliann Dorff, has been named The Ohio Art Educator of the Year for her outstanding contributions and commitment to art education. The OAEA Art Educator of the Year award is given to art educators who have previously received other OAEA awards within their division. Recipients have exhibited dedication to OAEA and art education over their years in the field.  Juliann Dorff is the former president of the Special Needs in Art Education Interest Group of the National Art Education Association (NAEA) and currently is a senior lectur...

Steve Sefner, local author and former 91�ֿ� sports announcer, appeared at the 91�ֿ� Bookstore on Oct. 1 to promote his 2022 book recounting the tale of the 2001-2002 91�ֿ� men’s basketball season. That season was 91�ֿ�’s first and only appearance in the Elite Eight of the NCAA Tournament, marking the greatest single-season record in Mid-American Conference history.  Twenty years later, Sefner, the play-by-play announcer for 91�ֿ� basketball that year, wrote “The Golden Dream” to commemorate what is considered one of the greatest Cinderella stories ...

Volunteers from Main Street Kent decorated downtown sidewalks and the Main Street bridge in advance of Rainbow Weekend, October 7 and 8. For the complete schedule of events, including the Rainbow Run, benefiting the 91�ֿ� LGBTQ+ Emergency Fund, visit: /lgbtq/rainbow-run-5k and https://www.mainstreetkent.org/events/kent-rainbow-weekend/.     ...